The HELPER Act would eliminate both the downpayment and monthly mortgage insurance premium requirements for ‘helpers,’ including firefighters and medical first responders.
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Maine expects another $108 million in surplus revenues
The new revenue forecast brings the projected surplus to nearly $373 million over the next 2 years and is likely to increase pressure on lawmakers to make more investments to help struggling Mainers.
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Trump ally, daughter-in-law snag top two posts at RNC
The new leadership essentially fuses the RNC with the Trump campaign.
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Biden tells people concerned about his age to ‘watch me.’
He argued both implicitly and explicitly that his age brings wisdom rather than worry.
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Congress passes first package of spending bills just hours before shutdown deadline for key agencies
Maine Sen. Susan Collins said, ‘It would be irresponsible for us not to clear these bills and do the fundamental job that we have of funding government. What is more important?’
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Katie Britt’s kitchen-table rebuttal to State of the Union baffles GOP
The kitchen setting was just one of the elements many viewers found offputting.
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Third-party movement No Labels says it will field a 2024 presidential ticket
No Labels was not expected to name its presidential and vice presidential nominees Friday. Instead, the group says it will announce its candidate selection process on March 14.
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RNC votes to install Trump’s handpicked chair as former president tightens control of party
Michael Whatley, a North Carolina Republican, was elected the party’s new national chairman. Lara Trump, the former president’s daughter-in-law, was voted in as co-chair.
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George Santos announces another run for New York House seat
The indicted former congressman plans to run against Nick LaLota for New York’s 1st District.
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Katie Britt calls Biden a ‘diminished leader’ in Republican response to the State of the Union
Alabama Sen. Katie Britt said ‘the free world deserves better than a dithering and diminished leader,’ in the Republican rebuttal to President Biden’s State of the Union address Thursday evening.